..., neither Roosevelt nor his influential inner circle, a group known as the Brains Trust, had very strong views on gold or the dollar. They did believe in the need to experiment, and tinkering with the currency was a possible area for experimentation, but it was an option with a low priority...

... Allen Robert S. 1936 . “G.O.P. Brain Trust Offers Fascist Program for the U.S.” New York Post , April 30 . Asso Pier Francesco Fiorito Luca . 2004 . “Human Nature and Economic Institutions: Instinct Psychology, Behaviorism, and the Evolution of American Institutionalism...

... teachers and friends.” In 1933-34, three of those so identi- fied- Adolph A. Berle, Rexford Guy Tugwell, and Raymond Moley-were close to Roosevelt as charter members of his “Brains Trust.” Bonds of friendship notwith- standing, Ginzberg reports his skepticism about economic policy initiatives set...

...) to “Columbia University teachers and friends.” In 1933-34, three of those so identi- fied- Adolph A. Berle, Rexford Guy Tugwell, and Raymond Moley-were close to Roosevelt as charter members of his “Brains Trust.” Bonds of friendship notwith- standing, Ginzberg reports his skepticism about economic...

... graduate programs, characteristics Bork, Robert, 209 of, 120 Bowen, Howard, 58 late-career job types, 125 Bowley, A. L., 248, 253 Carey, Henry, 54 Brady, Dorothy, 16 Carnegie Corporation, 68 Brains Trust, 62, 69, 166...

... thinking and an important advocate of activist monetary policy and, ultimately, of Keynesian fiscal policy as well. Lippmann, however, expressed concern that the Roo- sevelt administration was mixing recovery with reform to the detriment of the former. He had problems with Roosevelt’s Brain Trust...

... thinking and an important advocate of activist monetary policy and, ultimately, of Keynesian fiscal policy as well. Lippmann, however, expressed concern that the Roo- sevelt administration was mixing recovery with reform to the detriment of the former. He had problems with Roosevelt’s Brain Trust...

..., of Keynesian fiscal policy as well. Lippmann, however, expressed concern that the Roo- sevelt administration was mixing recovery with reform to the detriment of the former. He had problems with Roosevelt’s Brain Trust and especially with the NRA and AAA movement toward price fixing and encouragement...

... Boston Globe, 199 Bauman, Zygmunt, 2, 3 Bowley, Arthur Lyon, 60 Becker, Gary S., 255–61. See also “Brain trust,” 10, 146 The Becker-Posner Blog “Break the Glass” memo, 285, 286, and Business Week, 258–61, 268, 288 273...

... Oresme’s work on money, including his translations and commentary on parts of Aristotle’s Politics and Ethics, in modern French. It is most significant in the history of economic thought that this bishop and member of the king’s “brain trust” wrote in the ver- nacular. However, many of us have...

..., Roosevelt was willing to listen to heresy. Tugwell had the advantage of geographical proximity and, as one of the few economists to predict depression before it happened, he also had credibility. Tugwell came to the Brains Trust well armed with diagnoses and reme- dies for the Great Depression...

... Dexter White, were soon to play key roles on the American, indeed the worldwide, policy scene. Both of them would go to Washington in 1934 as founding mem- bers of Jacob Viner’s “Freshman Brains Trust.” In due course, first at the Federal Reserve Board and later at the Treasury and the White House...

... Depression and two world wars—one hot and one cold. The earliest attempts to involve economists in the con- sideration of high policy, such as the National Resources Planning Board and Roosevelt’s Brains Trust, were not successful for at least two reasons: because specific clients for advice were...

.... The 1933 Chicago plan for 100 percent money is rightly praised, but no hint is given that others were developing similar schemes at that time. One was Lauchlin Currie, then at Harvard and who, with his colleague Harry Dexter White, would soon join Viner’s “freshman brains trust” in Washington where...

.... The 1933 Chicago plan for 100 percent money is rightly praised, but no hint is given that others were developing similar schemes at that time. One was Lauchlin Currie, then at Harvard and who, with his colleague Harry Dexter White, would soon join Viner’s “freshman brains trust” in Washington where...

... at the ballot box.10 In tandem with their British peers, American economists had penetrated government; with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “brain trust” the professor had been called away from the opinion pages to become a think- ing organ of the state (Barber 1996). Ostensibly, which is to say with pub- licity...

... praised, but no hint is given that others were developing similar schemes at that time. One was Lauchlin Currie, then at Harvard and who, with his colleague Harry Dexter White, would soon join Viner’s “freshman brains trust” in Washington where a little later, as Marriner Eccles’s assistant, he...

.... The 1933 Chicago plan for 100 percent money is rightly praised, but no hint is given that others were developing similar schemes at that time. One was Lauchlin Currie, then at Harvard and who, with his colleague Harry Dexter White, would soon join Viner’s “freshman brains trust” in Washington where...

..., “Pure Theory of Public 99–100, 107, 123 Expenditure and Taxation,” Brains Trust of, 64 147, 162–65, 170, 206 and TNEC, 113–14 and Tiebout, 212–14 Roosevelt, Theodore, 61, 63 Sandburg, Carl, 66–67 Rothbard...

... Tugwell and John Maurice Clark. Tugwell (1932), a mem- ber of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Brains Trust,” later said that “the greatest economic event of the nineteenth century occurred when Frederick W. Taylor first held a stop watch on the movements of a group of shovellers in the plant...